ROYAL STUDIES.
THE Queen has been inspecting the "happy united family"—the miscellaneous assortment of cats, owls, rats, rabbits 6eldfares, hawks, and pigeons, which her liege subjects have been in the habit of wondering at for years in the vicinity of Waterloo and Southwark Bridges. It will readily be imagined that it was not as a mere zoological experiment that the exhibition was recommended to her attention—her Majesty's assortment of dogs, horses, and Brazilian monkies, to say nothing of the miraculous small pony lately added to the collection, have enabled her to complete her studies in that department long ago. Sir ROBERT PEEL has of late turned his attention to Oriental literature ; and being particu- larly struck with the success of some Viziers in conveying political instruction to royalty through the medium of parables, he resolved to try his hand in that way. After directing her Majesty's atten- tion to the harmony which prevailed among an assemblage of creatures generally considered natural and irreconcilable enemies, he slily asked the owner of the collection how he contrived to pre- serve peace among them? "Why, Sir, I treats them kindly; and, above all, I always keeps their crops full." Sir ROBERT dexterously availed himself of this simple answer to moralize the show into a thousand similies, and to apply it to the present disturbances in the manu- factoring districts. After pointing out how workmen, if well fed, would no more assault millowners than hawks do pigeons when free from hunger, the Premier took a rat in his hand, and pro- ceeded—" Your Majesty has heard how this creature has given more trouble to cure it of the propensity to bite every thing that approaches it than any other, and my own experience of rats enables me to corroborate the statement : yet even it, you see, in consequence of Mr. Austin's attention to its wants, I can handle with perfect safety. Your Majesty may rest assured that our menagerie will keep as quiet and orderly as Mr. Austin's if we can only contrive to feed it as well."
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